• 1 CHICKEN
• 3 CLOVES OF GARLIC, peeled
• 1 LEMON, sliced
• 6 POTATOES, sliced very thin
• 400 GRAM CARROTS, cleaned and sliced
• 300 GRAMFRENCH BEANS

• 500 GRAM BEEF
• 100 GRAM DRIED MUSHROOMS
• 200 GRAM CARROTS, in cubes
• 1 ONION, peeled
• CLOVES
• NUTMEG
• 4 CLOVES GARLIC

Stuff the chicken with lemon and garlic. Put the chicken in an oven dish and the vegetables around it. Add salt and fresh milled pepper, sprinkle with olive oil. Roast in the oven at 160 degrees for one and a half hour.

This is an English recipe. On 11 December 1192, Richard the Lion-Heart, King of England, was on his way home after having signed a treaty with Saladin to end the crusades when captured by Leopold V of Austria. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and worldwide history.

Stick the cloves in the onion. Put the beef and all other ingredients in an oven dish, together with 1 1/2 liter water and salt and pepper. Put in the oven for 4 hours at 140 degrees Celsius. Slice the beef and serve with the (slightly thickened) broth and the mushrooms.